Check out my live tweets of the event on my Twitter account!
For my Multimedia Production class at the University of Wyoming, we were assigned a project to live tweet an event in order to practice either journalistic or PR social media management. For my live tweeting, I chose to watch a live celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day through Pathway to Paris on their Instagram account. Pathway to Paris is a foundation created in 2014 with the purpose to help cities go 100% renewable energy and zero emissions by 2040, as the Paris Agreement created by the United Nations is attempting to do as well.
“Pathway to Paris brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, mayors, and innovators to help raise consciousness surrounding the urgency of climate action and offers solutions to turning the Paris agreement into action.“
Pathway to Paris purpose as stated on their website
I chose to use a journalistic approach on this assignment to practice what I want to do in the future, which is to be a journalist and a photographer.
I enjoyed being so involved in an event in a sense. It was enjoyable to choose certain aspects of an event to share with the rest of the world. It was as if I had a say in what is entertaining and of great importance to be remembered from this live event.
I learned about Pathway to Paris in general. I was unaware of this foundation until this assignment for my Multimedia Production class. It was interesting to listen in on a topic that I am not very strong about myself because I could receive another look and more points of view on climate change. It was also interesting to see how many people joined in on the live stream to either view or share an artistic capability or object.
I believe I would have liked to tweet a live event of a topic I am more passionate about, however, I did learn much about the climate change movement and, more specifically, the Pathways to Paris movement.
I see myself using social media in my future career by promoting articles or works I was a part of or fellow photographers who I have worked with on projects. I believe social media could be a great platform for my work to be showcased and to bring in a greater clientele for my photography business. I also see myself doing the same thing I did for this assignment in live tweeting an event in a journalistic view in order to spread important facts and stories with the rest of the world.
Media by Kathryn 
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